Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 14:56:57 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, "E . B . Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AIO issues... or not? Message-ID: <20011005145657.A40957@johncoop.MSHOME> In-Reply-To: <20011005135822.F59854@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:58:22 -0700 References: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0110051355580.28641-100000@www.everquick.net> <20011005100340.T76373@canonware.com> <20011005135822.F59854@elvis.mu.org>
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On 2001.10.05 11:58 Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com> [011005 11:54] wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 02:19:58PM +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote:
> > >
> > > However, there's a rather ominous and non-descriptive warning
> > > present: "There are numerous stability issues in the current aio
> > > code that make it unsuitable for inclusion on shell boxes." Can
> > > anyone please elaborate? Is this admonition outdated?
> > >
> > > Seen on 4.3-R.
> >
> > Alan Cox has done a lot of work to make aio stable over the past
> year, and
> > I'm guessing that it's reasonably stable as of 4.2 or 4.3. That
> warning
> > can likely be removed.
>
> Where was the warning (so it can be removed)?
>
It's in LINT.
> --
> -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
> 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s
> technology,"
> start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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